And this reinforced that particular opinion of mine! Extremely difficult with finger twisting controls and actually DO hurt your hands! Had quite enough after approximately five minutes of play. Good job I got this when it was on a free offer. £12.39 is daylight robbery. Of course if you like this kind of platformer, then go ahead......... just don't say you were not warned.
Good job I caught this when it was free........ it's almost £6 when at full price. Utter waste of good money. Don't buy this shovel-of-dogshitware. I ran it for about ten seconds before realising that it wasn't accepting any input. I'm amazed I even got to the main menu to find this out, my ears were screaming at the "PC speaker bleeps and farts" music from second one!!!!!!! Even the escape key wouldn't work, had to ctrl-alt-delete and get to Task Manager to quit it!
They're all out with their 5-star reviews again, sucking up to GOG, and all giving each other posreps by the thousands. Yet anyone dissenting from the toadying tongue down pants sychophantism, negreps by the thousands. Get rid of the rep system....... in full!
This is free, yeah, but it's just...... just...... kack. It's an insult. GOG's regular free game offers gets a 5-star from me, but these "goodie packs" are just a waste of time. NOT worth the 5-star raving reviews it's getting! And CDPR don't like me having such opinions. They like it even less when I express them. And so do the rabid downvoters....... just hit the "no" button already morons. I will get one upvote I suppose, my own. Hello Falran!
Even giving it out free is an insult! It comes with two different installers for 32bit and 64bit version. This immediately triggers warnings to me that there are issues with even getting it to run. As lo! That was so! NEITHER version worked for me. Just black screen, small hand shaped pointer, and music. That's are far as it gets. Then Norton 360 triggers an alert about it trying to access some "cloud.unity3d" website without your knowledge. Looking at the reviews from others that did get it working and risked it's rather "dodgy" online activity, it ain't worth even trying to get it to run. If you buy this, IMO, you're an idiot. I appreciate greatly the many, many GOG free offers give out, even if they sometimes are the scrapings of the barrel, but this one, you can stick it up your arses GOG!
Sure the game is cute and well presented. Shantae is a very likable player character. But it's spoiled by the controls. I believe this was never meant to be a PC game, the controls are all very awkward keyboard combos, the mouse is NOT used for control (only for some menus). Joysticks don't seem to be supported at all, the only option is one of those horrid Playstation type controllers. F-off! I also couldn't get past the first boss, some "Ammo Man" idiot in an oversized cartoon tank. This once again proves what a bunch of loonies some reviewers are as well, especially the rabid 5-star ravers, and they always get all the posreps from fellow rabid 5-star ravers. One such nutter couldn't even be bothered typing ANYTHING, not even a "." - and still got posreps. So I assume, rabid 5-star loonies, I can count on your negreps then eh?
You're a Dixie redneck starting off as a newly resurrected mummy after your Egyptian holiday turns bad! You enter a procedurely generated pyramid full of rooms with quotas of enemies to defeat. Your ammo and health you start with is pretty much it, so use wisely. But there is NO way (at first) you'll actually complete this pyramid. No, you'll die again and again and again and again...... but you will resurrect in your little "base camp" with the gold you earned intact. That will buy you buffs and upgrades. So next time you enter that pyramid, you're just a teeny todger stronger. You still wont win though. That will take hundreds, if not thousands of such attempts, slowly grinding your ever increasingly expensive, therefore slower and grindier, stats up. Then there's another two pyramids to tackle! The poor reviews for this game do rightly highlight some of this game's faults, and had me expecting another GOG turd release. I was suprised, it's quite good actually. But my main complaint is it's TOO GRINDY. It'll take a LOOOOOONG time to actually finish this, and I'll be bored rigid of it long before that. It felt a little sluggish on the potato PC I tried it on, and some reviews do complain about how slow your character is and slow weapon reload etc. Frame rates were reasonable on lower (still looked ok) settings though. It's very rare I advise not to take the bad reviews to heart too much! But then again, this too is cursed with the gibbering raving loony 5-star review nutters and their hyperbole and BS and getting all their toadies to posrep them....... ah well....... I got it on a free offer BTW, I recommend not paying the full £15 for it, buy on offer! But you ALWAYS do that, don't you?
I got this on a free offer so I can't complain, and this kind of game is not really my scene. But I quit right at the start when I found the game menus were such a clumsy, awkward mix of using the arrow keys and the mouse buttons. It just felt wrong - and not worth another second of time. But of course, others seem to like it. Or is that just the usual ONSLAUGHT of raving loony 5 star reviewers who would even give their own dysentery 5 star reviews? And get every other dystentry reviewer to posrep? And "HonaHoney" WTF is this? "Ignore my 5 stars- That's not a personal reflection of my experience with the game, that's just because I haven't played it as long as I would have liked before reviewing to give a thorough and valid opinion." So you just plump for 5-stars? I can now say I've seen the deepest pits of hell resulting from idiocy. You represent everything that's wrong with GOG reviewers these days mate.
What is it with nearly a dozen 4 and 5-star raving lunatic fanboi reviews in just the past few days? This is EXCREMENT! The frame rates are GHASTLY (well they are on my PC) despite the graphics being seriously LQ even for 2003! There is no "AI bot" player feature. THIS IS EXCREMENT! THIS IS EXCREMENT! THIS IS EXCREMENT! THIS IS EXCREMENT! Don't let all the other reviews and their circle jerking given to each other 100% posrep scores fool you! So c'mon circle jerkers, give this a negrep! Don't be fooled by all those negreps neither people. Every other reviewer so far here is completely insane. Either that or it worked well after all on their PCs and you can actually get a game online still. If that's so, then I'm wrong after all........ well, it's free, you've nothing to lose by trying it at least. IMO this is an INSULT from GOG.
You have to be of certain attitudes to like SC3000, or any Sim City series game, or any other of this type (eg Cities Skylines). You will either give this a raving 5-star review and be pos-repped to the highest heavens by fellow 5-star raving reviewers, or you'll be giving it a 1-star flaming takedown and be neg-repped to the depths of the sewers by those said 5-star raving reviewers. All that is quite normal for rep abuse here in GOG's reviews. They should (but will probably never) remove the rep system. Once I was a true lover of SC, I loved SC when I first got in on my Amiga 500 in 1989, and loved SC2000 when I got in on my PC in 1994. Since then, I've not played any of it's kind for decades. But I myself have changed since, revisiting these here in the 2020's, I have not refound that love. In fact I was bored within just a hour of playing this, ditto for SC2000, and Cities Skylines. I simply have fallen out of love of the genre. So in my personal opinion, this is just 1-star. But it would be unfair to trash it so when in other eons I would have 5-starred it. So it gets 3. You'll know before buying if you'll love this or loathe it though. But if you're unsure, heed my warning, you just might not like what you buy. SC3000 is, to be objective, not quite as good as it's predecessor, SC2000, however. The UI is rather shitty, especially compared to 2000 - and the graphics are poorer, despite technically being more advanced. It sticks to same formula though, whilst also adding more content. So, it is a good buy for those who KNOW they'll like it. Me? I think I got it on a free offer, so, hey, no loss eh?
